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[al6517]

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Your doin fine Lynn............. I prefer to keep a forced air Incubator @ 100-101.5 and I always have better hatches when I keep humidity drier like say 30-40% day 1-18 then up it to 50% no more, when they go to the hatching tray, The humidity will jump a bit when they begin to hatch but it's not much maybe 10% and normal and it's not an issue. Keep them there till they all hatch and dry off.

AL

 

[mjgigax]

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I am try my hand at it this year. Might as well do something with the land out here.

I love to garden. I have sucess mostly with flowers and herbs. Oklahoma soil and weather makes vegetable gardening hard for me. I use good compost, with mini horse manure, but this year I'll have chicken poo to add to it!

5/8th of my garden is going to be a new grow-out pen and 4 breeding pens. I'm thinking about what to put in the remaining area - a few tomatoes, basil, musk mellon (that is what Northerners call cantalope), cucumbers, and.....? Bell peppers go by the north/east side of the house where there is some shelter from full sun part of the day. Maybe I'll put my tomatoes there too.

 

[Kassaundra]

I always have some kind of garden, sometimes smaller then others depending on if I've been is school or how many jobs I've had at that time, but this year we intend to have a very large garden and have been doing alot of research on perma culture ideas for suburban back yards.

 

[chickensandmore]

We are hoping to have a good garden this year, the last few years they haven't been that good



Don

 

[nocityboy]

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I got one for sale cheap!

 

[Kwartel]

Haven't been on in awhile and I saw you guys have redone the thread. We're still buried in snow here, but I have shoveled what seems like miles of paths to all of the coops and other areas of interest. I can't believe how well all my quail have done in the snow. It doesn't even seem to phase them. They run in and out of their coop, while the chickens and peacocks are doing everything possible to keep away from the snow.

 

[nocityboy]

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I did get out and ended up in the ditch, luckily I drove out within few minutes!

Quit spending money on chickens and put good tires on that truck!

 

[CityClucks]

Sorry to those who have lost birds in this nasty weather. So far mine are good, but they didn't spend as much time outside in the run today and tonight a few of them looked uncomfortable...kind of like me.

I was getting serious cabin fever today, so DBF Jack came over and helped me shovel about a third of my driveway. We got tired and cold so we got in his Landcruiser and he took me to QuikTrip and bought me a Dr Pepper, then we went to the gun store and he bought me a soft cover for my Ruger 10-22 and a little plastic bullet box for some of my handgun ammo. He dropped me back home before dark - date night!

I like to garden too. This spring I'm not going to plant any tomatoes - I usually have tons of volunteer tomatoes come up, and maybe this deadly cold won't kill whatever might be out there hibernating in the soil. I have cucumber, peppers, squash and bean seeds ready to start indoors in the next couple of weeks.

 

[nocityboy]

Picked up 15 eggs from P.O. today, 13 BBS orpington and 2 Lavender orpington, will see how they do.

 

[Teach97]

evening....

City...you got cold and went for a Dr. pepper? You are supposed to go for hot chocolate!...or ice cream but that is something else...